(70 ILCS 910/15.3)
Sec. 15.3.
Disposition of facilities.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions
of this Act, the board of directors of a Hospital District, by public or
private offer, may provide for the transfer, sale, lease, or other disposition
of a public hospital and its facilities, in whole or in part, as provided in
this Section.
(b) The board of directors, by resolution, may authorize a
Hospital District to enter into contracts and agreements for the transfer,
sale, lease, or other disposition, in whole or in part, at one time or from
time to time of the public hospital and its facilities to a public or
private corporation or other entity, hospital, health care facility, unit of
local government, or institution of higher education, provided, unless the
board of directors in the resolution expressly finds and determines otherwise,
that the transfer, sale, lease, or other disposition does not adversely affect
access to the hospital by inhabitants of the Hospital District. At least 10
days before the adoption of a resolution under this subsection, the board of
directors shall make the proposed resolution conveniently available for public
inspection and shall hold at least one public hearing on the proposed
resolution. At least 10 days before the time of the public hearing,
notice of the hearing shall be published in one or more newspapers
having general circulation in the Hospital District.
The notice shall state the date, time and place of
the public hearing and the place where copies of the proposed resolution will
be available for examination.
(c) After entering into and giving effect
to the contracts and agreements with respect to any transfer, sale, lease, or
other disposition under subsection (b), the Hospital District may continue to
exist and to own, operate, and maintain facilities, whether or not a public
hospital of the Hospital District continues to exist after the transfer, sale,
lease, or other disposition. In addition, the Hospital District may continue to
exist and to exercise powers, functions, and authority under this Act as the
board of directors may find desirable or necessary, for up to 3 years, to give
effect to such transfer, sale, lease, or other disposition and, as applicable,
related to the facilities to continue to be owned, operated, and maintained by
the Hospital District. The board of directors of
the Hospital District may continue the Hospital District for up to 3 years to
initiate the ownership, operations, and maintenance of other facilities and
thereafter to continue to own, operate, and maintain the other facilities.
(d) If, before a transfer, sale, lease, or disposition
of the public hospital under subsection (b), a labor organization has been
recognized by the Hospital District as the exclusive representative of the
majority of employees in a bargaining unit for purposes of collective
bargaining, and if a transferee, purchaser, or lessor subject to the National
Labor Relations Act retains or hires a majority of the employees in the
bargaining unit, the purchaser or lessor shall recognize the labor
organization as the exclusive representative of the majority of employees in
that bargaining unit for purposes of collective bargaining, provided the labor
organization makes a timely written assertion of its representational
capacity to the transferee, purchaser or lessor.
(Source: P.A. 92-534, eff. 5-14-02.)
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